https://youtu.be/OmhV9HrB_Fk Book, Lyrics and Original Score by Paul Whitehouse and Jim Sullivan Directed by Caroline Jay Ranger Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £35.00 ★★★ Roll up, roll up, get your musical-based-on-a-beloved-British-TV series here! Only Fools and Horses: The Musical joins The Great British Bake Off: The Musical in the category of “sounds like a … Continue reading Review: Only Fools and Horses: The Musical – The Theatre Royal, Glasgow
https://youtu.be/mIig4FLrwmk Written by Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre, and Tricia Paoluccio With Additional Material by Jonathan Harvey Directed by Gabriel Barre Review by Annie Aslett Tickets: from £13.00 ★★★ Here You Come Again gives country legend, Dolly Parton, the “jukebox musical” treatment in this new production currently touring the UK, showing at Glasgow’s King’s Theatre until … Continue reading Review: Here You Come Again – The King’s Theatre, Glasgow
Written by Paul Beeson Directed by Bruce Strachan Tickets: from £10.60 ★★★★ Relegation, victories, administration, war, relegation, take-overs, and relegation… It’s been a long ol’ road for the Jam Tarts, Edinburgh’s oldest and most successful football club. For those familiar with Two Halves Productions’ other notable works – A War of Two Halves and Sweet … Continue reading Review: This Is Our Story – Park, Edinburgh
https://youtu.be/mIig4FLrwmk Written by Bruce Vilanch, Gabriel Barre, and Tricia Paoluccio With Additional Material by Jonathan Harvey Directed by Gabriel Barre Tickets: from £26.00 ★★★★ Pour yourself that cup of ambition, strap on those high heels to ‘look a lil taller’ and head along to the party Two Doors Down at the Edinburgh Playhouse and get … Continue reading Review: Here You Come Again – The Edinburgh Playhouse
Written by Fraser Boyle Music & Lyrics by Ali Cleland Directed by Fraser Boyle and Eric Potts ★★★★ One of the most remarkable things about live theatre, particularly Scottish, is the ability to blindside audiences - as any who wrote off Fraser Boyle’s Hen Night Horror due to the name or vibe needs their nipples … Continue reading Review: Hen Night Horror – The Dundee Rep
There’s a veritable maelstrom of music in the city this August, as the Edinburgh Festival Fringe celebrates its 75th anniversary, what better way to mark the occasion than with a song in your heart? This next list begins our gander at the musicals, operatic and jukebox moments over the Fringe run, and by lord – … Continue reading Have A Gander – Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2022 Musicals
Written by Stephen Greenhorn Featuring the Songs of The Proclaimers Directed by Elizabeth Newman & Ben Occhipinti ★★★★ Returning home can come with a myriad of complications. As desperate as we are to see family, reconnect with friends, and hold our loved ones – change rears itself at every corner. For Davy and Ally, relieved … Continue reading Sunshine On Leith – Pitlochry Festival Theatre
Sing it with us now... Yes, from 500 Miles, On My Way, Hate My Love, or Sunshine on Leith cast member Blythe Jandoo’s favourite Then I Met You, the music of Leith via Auchtermuchty musicians The Proclaimers is as instilled in the culture of Scotland as any romanticised novel or industrial captain. Now re-staged from the brilliance of the Pitlochry … Continue reading A Chat with Blythe Jandoo
Two of our most supportive theatres are coming together in what we can expect to be an exceptional collaboration with Sunshine on Leith. News of the co-production has been known for a while now, with appetites craving news on the casting of the piece - well, time to shine some light on that front. The now-legendary … Continue reading Sunshine on Leith – Casting News
Directed by Sally Lyall Music & Lyrics by The Proclaimers ★★★ Far from Leith, atop the makeshift MultiStory outdoor Fringe venue underneath the Castle, the sun conceals itself behind a typically grey Edinburgh skyline. But if there’s one theatrical group that can coax the sunshine out, it’s Edinburgh’s grassroots Captivate Theatre. The company return to … Continue reading Sunshine on Leith – Multistory
